easyJet Airline Company PLC

Job Description - Portfolio Delivery Standards and Assurance Lead (16454) Job Description Portfolio Delivery Standards and Assurance Lead ( 16454 ) Description JOB PURPOSE The Portfolio Delivery Standards and Assurance Lead works collaboratively across easyJet to ensure alignment and consistency of delivery standards to achieve optimal benefits for investment. This role requires leadership, expertise in standards development, process optimisation, and a deep understanding across a range of methodologies used in project delivery. The role is responsible for driving best practice through frameworks and processes, setting the appropriate standards across controls and governance, and ensuring that all projects and programmes within the wider easyJet Portfolio are compliant and achieve the maximum benefits. To support our transformation, we are optimising our Delivery Frameworks, Funding model and governance approach. This role will ensure we build pace and agility into everything we do; ensure we are data led in governance meetings and assurance touch points and ensure governance is an enabler not a bottleneck. All whilst focussing on improving our internal customer experience. JOB ACCOUNTABILITIES Help drive consistency, quality and professionalism in the way we manage and deliver projects at easyJet. Act as a custodian and advocate for the delivery framework and standards adopted across the enterprise portfolio. Defining and updating the project management processes, standards and governance, contributing to Quality Reviews, and co ordinating activities in support of project objectives. Engage the project and programme management community and ensure the framework and guidelines are communicated, understood and embedded - focusing on how it improves delivery outcomes. Define the governance, processes and tools to effectively forecast, plan, schedule and monitor resourcing across the programme. Define the most appropriate governance arrangement based on scale, complexity and risk for change projects and programmes within the portfolio. Identify through analysis where governance is not being followed and work with the relevant team members to rectify. Set the planning standards across the portfolio and work with Programme/Project Managers to ensure those standards are embedded and adhered to. Work with the project and programme teams to maintain a programme wide view of plans, risks & issues and dependencies. Ensure there is collaboration and engagement with the Project management community and contribute to continuous improvement on delivery performance. Identify opportunities to optimise portfolio outcomes, coaching others to enable effective change delivery. Establish and define the most appropriate fora for reviewing and maintaining effective delivery across the portfolio (e.g. Steering Groups/Product Councils) based on scale, complexity and risk of change projects, programmes and products. Leadership Collaborate effectively with a range of business stakeholders and third parties. Promote a "one team" culture and role model the easyJet leadership behaviours. Interfaces With the Executive Leadership Team (ELT), business leads, sponsors & stakeholders from multiple functional areas to understand the context and priorities for change. With business change leads, programme leads, technology, finance, procurement, legal & other stakeholders to ensure effective decision making and delivery. Requirements of the Role KEY SKILLS REQUIRED Expertise in developing, implementing, and optimising standards, tools, methods, and processes across large organisations. Adept at driving project integration, fostering collaboration, and influencing stakeholders to achieve strategic business goals. Strong knowledge of enterprise project portfolio management practices, processes, and governance, with a demonstrable record of delivering high value outcomes. Skilled in data analysis and interpretation to drive delivery performance improvements, with advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel (e.g., pivot tables, complex formulas) to identify trends, optimise delivery performance, and support strategic decision-making. Strong people leadership experience with a proven record of leading and coaching high performing teams. Strong knowledge of the financial aspects of project and portfolio management, experience of managing multi million budgets. Conversant with Prince2, MSP, MoP and other relevant portfolio and programme management standards. Experience of managing a range of delivery methods, including agile, waterfall and hybrid. Proven ability to lead, engage, and influence up to and including board level. Resilient and able to work under pressure, skilled at handling complexity and uncertainty. Strong influencing and negotiation skills. Strong stakeholder management ensuring supply meets demand and the customer requirements are delivered. High level of flexibility with a proven record of leading others successfully through cultural, process, system and transformational change. Process Optimisation: Experienced in streamlining processes and driving continuous improvement to enhance delivery efficiency and reduce waste. What you'll get in return At easyJet, we pride ourselves on a vibrant and inclusive workplace culture that supports and rewards innovation and excellence. Competitive base salary. 20% bonus potential. 25 days holiday, pension scheme, life assurance, and a flexible benefits package. Discounted staff travel scheme for friends and family. Annual credit for discount on easyJet holidays. 'Work Away' scheme, allowing you to work abroad for 30 days a year. Electric vehicle lease salary sacrifice scheme. Location & Hours of Work We operate a hybrid working policy of 40%-60% of the month spent with colleagues. Application Process Interested candidates should apply through our careers portal. Reasonable Adjustments At easyJet, we are dedicated to fostering an inclusive workplace that reflects the diverse customers we serve across Europe. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds. If you require specific adjustments or support during the application or recruitment process, such as extra time for assessments or accessible interview locations, please contact us at . We are committed to providing reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to ensure accessibility and accommodation.

Overview Location: Luton/Hybrid When it comes to innovation and achievement there are few organisations with a better track record. Join us and you'll be able to play a big part in the success of our highly successful, fast-paced business that opens up Europe so that people can exercise their get-up-and-go. With almost 300 aircraft flying over 1,000 routes to more than 32 countries, we're the UK's largest airline, the fourth largest in Europe and the tenth largest in the world. Set to fly more than 90 million passengers this year, we employ over 10,000 people. Its big-scale stuff and we're still growing. Job Purpose With a big investment into Databricks, and with a large amount of interesting data, this is the chance for you to come and be part of an exciting transformation in the way we store, analyse and use data in a fast paced organisation. You will join as a Senior Platform Data Engineer providing technical leadership to the Data Engineering team. You will work closely with our Data Scientists and business stakeholders to ensure value is delivered through our solutions. Responsibilities Develop robust, scalable data pipelines to serve the easyJet analyst and data science community. Highly competent hands-on experience with relevant Data Engineering technologies, such as Databricks, Spark, Spark API, Python, SQL Server, Scala. Work with data scientists, machine learning engineers and DevOps engineers to develop, deploy machine learning models and algorithms aimed at addressing specific business challenges and opportunities. Coach and mentor the team (including contractors) to improve development standards. Work with Business Analysts to deliver against requirements and realise business benefits. Build a documentation library and data catalogue for developed code/products. Oversight of project deliverables and code quality going into each release. Qualifications Key Skills Required Technical Ability: has a high level of current, technical competence in relevant technologies, and be able to independently learn new technologies and techniques as our stack changes. Clear communication; can communicate effectively in both written and verbal forms with technical and nontechnical audiences alike. Complex problem-solving ability; structured, organised, process-driven and outcome-oriented. Able to use historical experiences to help with future innovations. Passionate about data; enjoy being hands-on and learning about new technologies, particularly in the data field. Self-directed and independent; able to take general guidance and the overarching data strategy and identify practical steps to take. Technical Skills Required Significant experience designing and building data solutions on a cloud based, big data distributed system. Hands-on software development experience with Python and experience with modern software development and release engineering practices (e.g. TDD, CI/CD), and software deployment automation with GitHub actions or Azure DevOps. Experience in testing automation of data transformation pipelines, using frameworks like Pytest or dbt Unit Test. Comfortable writing efficient SQL and debugging. Data warehouse operations and tuning experience in schema evolution, indexing, partitioning. Hands-on IaC development experience with Terraform or CloudFormation. Understanding of ML development workflow and knowledge of when and how to use dedicated hardware. Significant experience with Apache Spark or any other distributed data programming frameworks (e.g. Flink, Hadoop, Beam). Familiarity with Databricks as a data and AI platform or the Lakehouse Architecture. Experience with data quality and/or and data lineage frameworks like Great Expectations, dbt data quality, OpenLineage or Marquez, and data drift detection and alerting. Understanding of Data Management principles (security and data privacy) and how they can be applied to Data Engineering processes/solutions (e.g. access management, data privacy, handling of sensitive data (e.g. GDPR). Experience in event-driven architecture, ingesting data in real time in a commercial production environment with Spark Streaming, Kafka, DLT or Beam. Understanding of the challenges faced in the design and development of a streaming data pipeline and the different options for processing unbounded data (pubsub, message queues, event streaming etc). Understanding of the most commonly used Data Science and Machine Learning models, libraries and frameworks. Knowledge of the development lifecycle of analytical solutions using visualisation tools (e.g. Tableau, PowerBI, ThoughtSpot). Hands-on development experience in an airline, e-commerce or retail industry. Worked within the AWS cloud ecosystem. Experience of building a data transformation framework with dbt. Location & Hours Location & Hours of Work: We operate a hybrid working policy of 40% of the month spent with colleagues. Application Process Interested candidates should apply through our careers portal. Reasonable Adjustments At easyJet, we are dedicated to fostering an inclusive workplace that reflects the diverse customers we serve across Europe. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds. If you require specific adjustments or support during the application or recruitment process, such as extra time for assessments or accessible interview locations, please contact us at . We are committed to providing reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to ensure accessibility and accommodation MP2# Business Area Primary Location

Overview Luton/Hybrid Company When it comes to innovation and achievement there are few organisations with a better track record. Join us and you'll be able to play a big part in the success of our highly successful, fast-paced business that opens up Europe so that people can exercise their get-up-and-go. With almost 300 aircraft flying over 1,000 routes to more than 32 countries, we're the UK's largest airline, the fourth largest in Europe and the tenth largest in the world. Set to fly more than 90 million passengers this year, we employ over 10,000 people. Its big-scale stuff and we're still growing. Job Purpose With a big investment into Databricks and a large amount of interesting data this is the chance for you to come and be part of an exciting transformation in the way we store, analyse and use data in a fast paced organisation. You will join as a Data Platform Engineer joining a team of committed data specialists. As our data strategy begins to take shape, we aim to become the most data driven airline in the world. To achieve this goal, we want to use our data to improve all our business processes and that means allowing our teams to experiment and innovate as they deem fit. Within data platform engineering, this translates to building the frameworks and tooling data engineers, analysts and scientists utilise, enabling platform users to focus on value delivery Job Accountabilities Support the business in harnessing the power of data within easyJet. Work in a fast-paced agile scrum environment with a "release within sprint mentality". Responsible for building and maintaining deployment frameworks. Build best practice and constantly improve processes and core code bases. Work in partnership with Data Engineers to conform to/define patterns and standards. Work with Business Analysts to deliver against requirements and realise business benefits. Work with a mixed team of onshore and offshore resource to work with consistent standards and frameworks. Requirements of the Role Key Skills Required Technical Ability: has a high level of current, technical competence in relevant technologies, and be able to independently learn new technologies and techniques as our stack changes. The role requires close coordination to design and implement data pipelines that support machine learning models, analytical dashboards, and experimental frameworks. Clear communication; can communicate effectively in both written and verbal forms with technical and non-technical audiences alike. Complex problem-solving ability; structured, organised, process-driven and outcome-oriented. Able to use historical experiences to help with future innovations. Passionate about data; enjoy being hands-on and learning about new technologies, particularly in the data field. Technical Skills Required Hands-on software development experience with Python and experience with modern software development and release engineering practices (e.g. TDD, CI/CD). Experience with Apache Spark or any other distributed data programming frameworks. Comfortable writing efficient SQL and debugging on cloud warehouses like Databricks SQL or Snowflake. Experience with cloud infrastructure like AWS or Azure. Experience with Linux and containerisation (e.g Docker, shell scripting). Understanding Data modelling and Data Cataloguing principles. Understanding of Data Management principles (security and data privacy) and how they can be applied to Data Engineering processes/solutions (e.g. access management, data privacy, handling of sensitive data (e.g. GDPR). Experience with CI/CD tools, in particular GitHub actions. Hands-on IaC development experience with Terraform or CloudFormation. Hands-on development experience in an airline, e-commerce or retail industry Experience in event-driven architecture, ingesting data in real time in a commercial production environment with Spark Streaming, Kafka, DLT or Beam. Experience implementing end-to-end monitoring, quality checks, lineage tracking and automated alerts to ensure reliable and trustworthy data across the platform. Experience of building a data transformation framework with dbt. Familiarity with Databricks as a data and AI platform or the Lakehouse Architecture. What you'll get in return Competitive base salary Up to 20% bonus BAYE, SAYE & Performance share schemes Flexible benefits package Excellent staff travel benefits About easyJet At easyJet our aim is to make low-cost travel easy - connecting people to what they value using Europe's best airline network, great value fares, and friendly service. It takes a real team effort to carry over 90 million passengers a year across 35 countries. Whether you're working as part of our front-line operations or in our corporate functions, you'll find people that are positive, inclusive, ready to take on a challenge, and that have your back. We call that our 'Orange Spirit', and we hope you'll share that too. Apply Complete your application on our careers site. We encourage individuality, empower our people to seize the initiative, and never stop learning. We see people first and foremost for their performance and potential and we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive organisation that supports the needs of all. As such we will make reasonable adjustments at interview through to employment for our candidates. Business Area Primary Location